They must have a whole room full of Winstons monitoring RSS feeds or something, that was VERY quick.

And no mention of the change...

Funny, isn't it? It's all over the web in the original version. It was written and reviewed by all the oh so sensitive NYT staff, was up at the NYT for a whole day, fifty comments, who knows how many thousand earnest lefty readers.

And no one caught it before evil Anglo raaacist hunting mad conservative gun nut me.

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However, it has a street meaning which elevates it to the level of awkward double entendre, given the subject of the article.

If it was a cold and breezy day when Emperor Akihito's personal aircraft touched down at Dulles, would it be proper to include the sentence "There was a little nip in the air..." in the official reportage of the incident? I think not.

I know what they meant, of course, and had they included the rest of the homily ("...in the armor") I probably wouldn't have said "boo".

As it is, it's merely a gaffe on the order of trailing a few squares of TP from the restroom on one's heel... Unless one is, like The Gray Lady, the self-appointed arbiter of decorum, in which case said trailing TP squares go from mildly amusing to completely risible. ;)

Quite frankly, I blame the lack of focus on racial sensitivity in George W. Bush's Amerikkka in general, and at the New York Times in particular. They must all be a bunch of thoughtless Republicans or something.